In January, A M Naik, executive chairman of the L&T group, had confirmed that the engineering major was looking at acquiring a stake in Mindtree
Rostow Ravanan says with founders at helm, company is best placed to protect sharehoders' interest; L&T board meet may take final call
Such a move by any rival IT firm may lead to value erosion for both entities
Mindtree's founders are unwilling to shed their holding as the mid-tier firm is showing a strong growth momentum
Promoters stake sale not on cards, says management
Current contract pipeline, as well as demand growth across verticals, are positives for the company
Siddhartha, who first invested in Mindtree in 1999, holds 21% in the IT services firm through his various entities
A lot of large investors exited after Mindtree's listing on the bourses
The move comes at a time when the traditional software maintenance and support works are slowly drying up
In dollar terms, Mindtree posted $246.4 million in revenues, a growth of 19.5 per cent y-o-y and two per cent sequentially.
Net profit rises 65%, travel & hospitality, hi-tech segments drive growth
The Board of Directors have declared an interim dividend of Rs 3 per equity share
The endowment will empower the academic institution with industry specific knowledge and resources to help create solutions to accelerate the growth and adoption of Data Science and AI globally
In past one year, shares of MindTree had outperformed the market by surging 109% as compared to 15% rise in the S&P BSE Sensex till Wednesday.
The firm plans to focus on digital biz and build solution capabilities, says CEO
The company's market valuation fell by Rs 378.49 crore to Rs 8,140.51 crore
The board will meet on June 28, to consider a share buyback proposal.
Mid-size IT services firm MindTree said it would look at share buyback plan, joining larger firms such as TCS, Infosys, HCL. The company has informed the BSE the proposal for a buyback would be taken up at the Board meeting on June 28. "...a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company will be held on June 28, 2017 to inter-alia, consider the proposal to buyback the fully paid-up equity shares of the Company. Further, pursuant to Company's Code for Prevention of Insider Trading, the Trading Window of the Company will be closed from June 26, 2017 to June 30, 2017 (both the days inclusive) for the Designated Persons and others," said the Bengaluru-based company in a filing. Mindtree has a market cap of Rs 8749 crore and its share price closed Rs 1.45 or 0.28 per cent up at Rs 520.70 on the BSE on Thursday. Analysts say the company might consider a token buyback of shares, which could be worth a small percentage of the market cap. IT services companies have started opting for ...
Indian IT service companies have seen a major shift in technology in recent years
Midsized IT company Mindtree plans to increase its headcount by 1400 at its Bhubaneswar campus in next six months."The expansion of Mindtree with additional two lakh sq ft will be completed in next six months which will have additional employment of 1,400 IT (information technology) professionals" , Electronics and Information Technology minister Chandra Sarathi Behera said here.The company's campus, Mindtree Kalinga, as it is named, is spread across 20 acres of land. It hosts the Global Learning Center and the Social Centre of the company.Behera said, Mindtree started its operation at Bhubaneswar with Global Learning Centre from September 2015 with a built up space of five lakh sq ft and having IT manpower of 900.The minister said the four major IT companies Infosys, Tech-Mahindra, Wipro and TCS have made huge expansion of their development centres in Bhubaneswar during last three years.Infosys had started its second development centre with two lakh sq ft space at InfoValley, ...